Bike enthusiasts applaud first protected bike lane in Chicago
July 25, 2011 at 03:56 PM
The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - It’s a milestone for Chicago bike enthusiasts.
Chicago’s Department of Transportation says the city’s first protected bike lane has been completed on the city’s near northwest side, not far from downtown. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday.
The lane is one that separates bike riders from vehicles. It’s called a cycle track and is being tested on a half-mile stretch. Flexible posts are being used to separate bikers from traffic.
Transportation department spokesman Brian Steele tells The Chicago Tribune that the cost of the project is about $140,000.
Plans are in the works for another test site on the city’s South Side.
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When are cyclist going to start paying for all the special projects that are done for them. Motorists pay them through their plates and at the pump with the motor fuel tax. DNR helps by giving grants for bicycle trails that comes from money we pay for hunting/fishing licenses. Bike trailes at state parks funded and maintaned through DNR. And yet here locally, tons of money has been spent on them, but you will have a biccyle club out riding their bikes on county roads 4 or 5 wide, with 20 in a group slowing down traffic, yell at them and what is the reply. We pay taxes to, well not the kind that needs to be paid. Why don’t they have to buy permits to ride these bike trailes like permits issued by the state for boats, or permits for certain lakes should be issued for bike trails that are helped being funded by local goverments. I am not against the bike riders, but I am tired of the millions spent on them through fees we as hunter/fisherman & women pay and they get by pretty much for free.
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